Diagnosing some diseases could be as easy as breathing into a tube. MIT engineers have developed a test to detect ...

UC San Diego bioengineer Kiana Aran spent five days sealed inside a pitch-black chamber in rural Poland last November, ...

Cambridge scientists have discovered a light-powered chemical reaction that lets researchers modify complex drug molecules at the final stages of development. Unlike traditional methods that rely on ...

Living bacteria generate electrical signals in a new hydrogel sensor that can detect substances in liquids like milk.

It's long been assumed that for an organism to learn, remember or draw conclusions, it needs a brain. But mounting evidence, including a recent Cognitive Science study, challenges that assumption, ...

A slew of biosensors recorded surprising changes in her brain and body that suggest sensory deprivation can reveal more about “the world within you.” ...

Our eyes alone do not provide us with a continuous and stable view of the world. They jump several times each second in rapid movements called saccades. Because the eye projects the world onto the ...

Fleeting electron-hole pairs are giving scientists a new window into optimizing light-emitting devices (LEDs). Using quantum ...

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Illustrating showing Thomas Edison holding graphene on the left and a man with safety goggles holding a large blue crystal on the right Crystal craze: Fortuitous experiments led to graphene in a ...

A single flat metalens now handles both excitation and fluorescence collection for diamond quantum sensors, enabling nanoscale sensing in spaces too tight for conventional optics.

It has been a long time since a phone made me take this many photos. From LOFIC to the continuous telephoto zoom, here is how the experience unfolded.| Technology News ...